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i have a Ambient station that continues to give the following error. I have replaced the unit once, batteries several times, even added a shield to the usb cable but still get this error. PC is windows 7 and is set to never sleep.

mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss Lost sensor contact !!!! 740 data 13 33 E7 00 FF FF FF FF 26 FF FF FF FF 8A D9 00 40

Hello
And mine station, Proweather 1080, from time to time give in error board just one line, like that i had today: 16/4/2015 12:13:16 πμ : Lost sensor contact!!! 1390: Data: 02 30 06 00 49 39 7F FC 77 E0 0F D8 3F EF EF E0
My station is working from 10 of January 2010. My sensors batteries is lithium (6 months old) and the console is about 1 m from pc. I didn't see something strange to the diagrams and me weather sites is updating normally.
After searching Cumulus forum, i saw many people have the same problem. I give my example just to know if the numbers mean something different.
Regards
Vaggelis.

'Lost sensor contact' is loss of communication between the outdoor sensors and the console. The console reports the loss of communication by setting a bit in the data, and Cumulus is simply relaying that information. The console will typically show "dashes" for outdoor sensors at this time. If you've tried replacing batteries etc, then you could try repositioning the console so that it gets a better signal. Sometimes adjsuting the relative positions so that the antennae are better aligned can apparently improve things. There are some tips on this somewhere in the forum (in the Fine Offset section).

The first example in this thread shows the typical case - the console has set the 'contact lost' flag (the 40 in the last byte) and the outdoor data is all FF.

The second example is just garbage data that happens to have the contact lost bit set.

steve wrote:' Sometimes adjsuting the relative positions so that the antennae are better aligned can apparently improve things. There are some tips on this somewhere in the forum (in the Fine Offset section).

Steve I see lost contact usally when i have high humidity. My console is visual less than 5 m from sensors and has visual each other. I just wondering if we can from numbers and letters, understand if any spesific sensor "give" signal that temporarilly is not set data.

Thanks Steve

vaggos wrote:Steve I see lost contact usally when i have high humidity.

Do you know that you are definitely getting genuine 'contact lost' indications, or are they all like the one you're quoted, which is not, it is simply garbage data, cause unknown?

steve wrote: Do you know that you are definitely getting genuine 'contact lost' indications, or are they all like the one you're quoted, which is not, it is simply garbage data, cause unknown?

Steve,
Sometimes - but not so often - i see more than ten references with lost "contact", specially when i have high humidity. If the post i quoted its simply garbage data, its ok.
If i understood correct.
Regards
Vaggelis